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About 7 years ago it was the most affordable USB controller that identify them self as a HID device that I could find to brute force the EFI lock on a MacBook Pro https://orvtech.c…

> ...Going forward, we will be building an option to opt out of using this partner ID... One should be opted out by default and the option should be build to opt in.

Agree is not a "Solution" but it does not has the impact that most people are imagining. I am just curious, what would be the right way for companies to tackle this, how would they…

Students will still have access to the software via other means as usual, the real impact would be on cloud services I guess

Yup but lets be hones that does not count for side business (rebuscarse) which is often not declared/measured.

As a Venezuelan I am very aware of the population of my country and how even medium size business get their software from (Pasillos de la UCV). Was your reactionary comment sponsor…

How many of them can actually buy a license with a national average salary of $17 a month?

They probably ran the numbers and it was cheaper to loose the dozen of legit clients they have there than to put some engineer hours to figure which one of them are government enti…

So, inflation?

lovely, I wonder how much the company that did this for them charged

I'll keep tipping in cash, thank you.

It is not the same traffic pattern, Uber sees a regular stream of request keeping their caches warm, Yes they might see 2X or 3X spikes every now and them but in proportion these a…

As a Venezuelan I welcome these measures. Petro coin would not have helped the people and it was meant to launder money. Also it is a lie that is backed by PDVSA's oil [1]. [1] htt…

It is worth to note that Venezuela is an oil producer country that used to sell electricity to Brazil, Guyana and Colombia.

They did it for the iCloud lock which can be circumvented by automatically rebooting the Mac every X tries.

I think so. The correct procedure would have been to assign another iCloud account and assign your self another PIN (lock it with your own PIN)... Then reformat it

The buyer tried this but he purchased it from one of his contractors so they did not do anything on writing.

The message on the first lock screen (iCloud padlock) read "Devuelve me la laptop y te devuelvo el dinero" which means "Give me back the laptop and I will return your money".

I did a low level reformat `dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sdd` with the hard drive mounted on another machine before noticing that he seller had locked theachine EFI remotely.

Well saw a spike in traffic to my site and traced the source to HN... Let's hope the migration from WordPress to Pelican pays out. As mentioned by some of you this is from early 20…

Leaving politics and ideology aside, there are precedents to consider... back in 2012 Malaysia had a similar situation but the outage was wider and more pronounced. A different pre…

go on... I mean do we know their IPs? they could easily move to amazon and not provide any distinguishable Browser ID, etc..

This might take more time than my previous Teensy project "Attacking the EFI PIN Lock" but I do understand that there are people that don't want to lose the content of their hard d…